Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

A few weeks ago I bought a bag of chickpea (garbanzo bean) flour on a total whim, and the dreary weather this past weekend finally inspired me to try it out! I decided to bust out my neglected coconut oil for the occasion as well.

Don’t let chickpea flour (which you can find online or in health food stores) freak you out — I promise you can’t taste it at all. Matt was SHOCKED when I told him that the cookies he was currently demolishing had beans in them. 😉 Just don’t taste the raw batter!

Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

Makes 2 dozen cookies

These cookies are hearty and flavorful — I love the hint of coconut and banana and there’s no bean flavor, I promise. Just a little extra sneaky protein in the form of chickpeas. So healthy you can eat them for breakfast — and we have been!

Ingredients:

Dry:

2 cups rolled oats*

3/4 cup garbanzo bean (chickpea) flour

2/3 cup brown sugar

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

Wet:

1 very ripe medium banana, mashed

1/3 cup coconut oil (warmed in microwave until liquid)

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/4 cup nonfat plain Greek yogurt

1/3 cup walnuts*, chopped (optional)

1/3 cup chocolate chips (or raisins)

*If you need this recipe to remain gluten free, be sure to buy oats and walnuts that are certified gluten free. Both are naturally gluten-free but can often be contaminated in processing — just a heads up!

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350.

1) In a large bowl, mix all dry ingredients. In a separate bowl, mix all wet ingredients, except for the walnuts and chocolate chips.

2) Add wet ingredients to try and mix. Add in walnuts and chocolate chips and mix.

3) Grease or cooking spray two baking sheets. Use a spoon to form the batter into uniform sized balls and drop them onto the baking sheet evenly spaced. If you like your cookies to be flatter, press the balls down a bit with the spoon.

4) Bake 18 minutes. If the cookies are pressed down to be flatter, bake ~12 to 15 minutes (check to test doneness).

Deeeelish. My official taste tester (Matt) gave them two thumbs up!

I made our batch using raisins instead of chocolate chips because when I went to get the chocolate chips out of the pantry… I released we didn’t have any. #fail. Oh well. Raisins are awesome, too.

Comments

I’ve made a ton of wheat-free baked goods using chickpea flour, and my boyfriend can never tell. For each cup of wheat flour, I use 3/4 cup chickpea flour, 1/4 cup almond flour, and 1/4 cup cornstarch. To save money, I make my own chickpea flour and almond flour.

Of course, he just might think they taste good because I use outstanding chocolate. Hard to say.

Nice! I’ve had some altercations with garbanzo flour causing me to have some funky tasting cupcakes, but this looks promising. Now to find some GF oats in South Africa… Should’ve brought some back a few weeks ago!

I am so excited to try these!! I bought garbanzo bean flour a while back and I couldn’t figure out what I should do with it, particularly so it wouldn’t taste like garbanzo beans These look delicious and healthy. Thanks for the recipe!

Okay, so i really wanted to make these but I couldn’t find some of the ingredients at the grocery store… I didn’t use coconut oil, I just used 1/3 cup water, and a bit of organic shaved coconut flakes. I also couldn’t find the flour, so I bought a regular gluten free flour. I skipped the salt just because I don’t use salt and skipped the baking baking soda because it is not a very natural ingredient…, and honestly, everyone in my family loved them !! Very healthy, and very delicious ! Thank you very much

Hi there,
I bought garbanzo beans (chickpeas) to grind them myself as I grind all my own seeds, herbs, dried berries and more. I put them in my Nutribullet and they actually broke the plastic cup into pieces almost instantly. They are REALLY hard! lol
I’m sure a heavy duty grinder would work but I’m not taking any chances again.
I found the flour on Swanson Vitamins website. They have really reasonable prices. Sign up for their daily discount emails. They also have a refer a friend program. I think it’s $5 off your first order. If you’re interested let me know…I can send you a request